Rockets’ Dalembert Remembers Horror of Haiti Quake

January 12th, 2012

Samuel Dalembert stepped off the plane and barely recognized the land where he grew up.
 
Two frantic days after a magnitude-7.0 earthquake rumbled across his native Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010, the veteran NBA center returned to the Caribbean nation and could hardly absorb the chaos and horror.
 
Victims missing limbs lying helplessly in the littered streets. Children covered in blood, screaming for their parents. Buildings pulverized and homes crushed into twisted piles of rubble.
 
“You felt like this was the end,” Dalembert recalls. “It’s like the end of Earth.”
 
Dalembert lost a cousin and several close friends among the estimated 300,000 killed. Another 1.5 million residents were left homeless. Roads were impassable. Communication was impossible.
 
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